This book is about a journey to Africa, Tanzania and Zanzibar. It is made with some images stolen from this wonderful country.
In Africa you cannot take photos of people. They don’t like beingportrayed, since they believe that by being captured in photographstheir soul will be stolen. I used an Olympus Pen half-frame and neverframed the picture, I just simply shot what impressed me.
The concept of half-frame is interesting. The combination of theimages created on film sometimes generates surprising compositions,that we had not always thought about. Furthermore, the composition madein an approximate, not studied and some- times inaccurate and “random”way, reflects the spontaneity that must never be lost when we look atthings for the first time.
That experience was full of intense emotions, and made me think onhow rhythm and priorities are very different from those which we areaccustomed today. This was one of my projects left in the drawer, thatI wanted to work on, because you should never leave things unfinishedbehind you.
In Africa you cannot take photos of people. They don’t like beingportrayed, since they believe that by being captured in photographstheir soul will be stolen. I used an Olympus Pen half-frame and neverframed the picture, I just simply shot what impressed me.
The concept of half-frame is interesting. The combination of theimages created on film sometimes generates surprising compositions,that we had not always thought about. Furthermore, the composition madein an approximate, not studied and some- times inaccurate and “random”way, reflects the spontaneity that must never be lost when we look atthings for the first time.
That experience was full of intense emotions, and made me think onhow rhythm and priorities are very different from those which we areaccustomed today. This was one of my projects left in the drawer, thatI wanted to work on, because you should never leave things unfinishedbehind you.
